diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e51c5600..7b90ae3f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Release notes
 
-## unreleased - Version 3.0.0
+## Version 3.0.0 – 2019-03-14
 
 Differences from version 1.3.
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 18d9bfb7..d3577dd2 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 # Use this version when git data are not available, like in git zip archive.
 # Update when tagging a new release.
-FALLBACK_VERSION = '3.0a0.post0'
+FALLBACK_VERSION = '3.0.0.post0'
 
 # determine if we run with Python 3.
 PY3 = (sys.version_info[0] == 3)